Video: Greatest Hits – “L Train Girl”.

May 12, 2011, 1 comments

Zak Mering’s main (?) project Greatest Hits had us dancing all night long through 2010 since the release of the duo’s (Tyler Thacker is the other member) stellar Danse Pop 7 inch on Olde English Spelling Bee. Now, the weirdo/retro dance project finally has another single forthcoming, Girl Crazy will be out May 30 via Paris, France imprint Maman Records. The 7 inch is going to feature two tracks, Funky Dame and L Train Girl, and as video art has always been playing an important role in Zak’s oeuvre, both tunes will be blessed with accompanying pieces of moving pictures. The first video to drop is the one for L Train Girl, and as expected it turns out to be a very d.i.y., very charming reverence to that certain L 14th Street-Canarsie Local from Chelsea to the southwestern realms of Brooklyn – including station name shout-outs, subway dancing and chance encounters with all kinds of commuter train weirdos. A metropolitan fairytale.

By Henning